Nope.
Wrong.
Untrue.
False.
Debunked.

This.
People were just as shallow when watching five hours of TV every day.
Besides, Carr's book has been debunked as being not much more than an appealing idea based on anecdotal evidence. It's just a Gladwellism. Which is why it's not surprising to see it being bought wholesale by so many.

(As a side note, another crowd that's an easy prey to Gladwellism: young adults with an annoying voice parroting ideas in Youtube videos.)

That sounds like Malcom Gladwell...

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Malcolm Gladwell. He is a very well known author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell

I sorta feel like this belongs in the lies channel. Not because Gladwell is lying, but because the lies channel's full title is "One Nation Under Truthiness." That's what Gladwell's really talking about: the way the right has wrapped themselves in a false alternate reality, and have become impervious to facts that contradict their self-serving conception of the world.

Anyways, *quality video.

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@NetRunner: "to try to make sure all men are still being created equally."

"Still?" Don't you mean 'for the first time since the start of civilization?'

"All men are created equal" means equality under the law, not that humans are even remotely equal in abilities and cognitive complexity.


Re: reprogenetics:
It's essentially the same as the term 'genetic engineering,' which liberal circles talk about frequently, generally being highly opposed to human genetic engineering and anything else "unnatural."


Re: "You may need to elaborate on the "liberals oppose genetics" comment -- we like research into genetics"

Liberalism in the 1970s-1990s used to argue IQ etc. had "no genetic basis --not that IQ means anything." Now the anti- human sciences marxist academics who led liberal thought, like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, are too old or have passed away, so the liberal position seems to have migrated from 0%-5% genetic basis to 50% genetic basis, which is the number I noticed liberal Malcolm Gladwell gave in Outliers. The most recent American Psychological Association consensus statement that I'm aware of gives the number at 75%, so Gladwell's still probably being a little hopeful, but 50% is accurate enough.

However, it's still very common to see liberals claiming human behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, or human intelligence research are meaningless or simply have too high a "yuck factor" to allow for open discussion. That's particularly true if you're dealing with the more interesting areas, which are taboo for liberals:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03gene.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html

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@KnivesOut. Playing basketball with an nba star is being a man of the people?


The masses love activities in which a ball is moved to some destination or another, and folks who can move balls well are their heroes, rather than people like Malcolm Gladwell or Steve Jobs, so this seems like it's right up their alley.

Intellectual Ventures, the makers of this video, are a group of humankind's greatest badasses solving the world's problems while we sleep.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a fascinating article about them, "In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?"

I think many of the shortcomings of the education system are shortcomings on the part of the academics who design the curriculums. Problem solving in the sense of how to optimally manage our intelligence would be a great thing to teach. Even PhDs don't get taught that, though.

Teaching these areas would be a great start : Cognitive science, decision theory, intelligence research, game theory, behavioral economics, risk management, cognitive bias, and rationalism.

(Wikipedia links on those subjects are here: http://www.videosift.com/video/For-all-my-Athiest-friends-on-The-Sift?loadcomm=1#comment-744091)

I also highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. (People who like reading books on their computer could find the PDF here)

Quantum, you can't really compare the current costs with the ones which would result from a goverment run system as the latter would implement a social insurance model, rather than an actuarial one which is so punishing for people who have the bad luck to be risky customers for private companies. This explains why the rest of the developed world pays less per capita for health care, yet offers more people better care.

You may find this enlightening: http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_08_29_a_hazard.html

For those curious, the book Llewellyn was referring to is Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. A fascinating and essential read, it's also available on audio book.

Check out the discussion on The Hour:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Malcolm-Gladwell-on-The-Hour